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Be known by the people who matter.

humankind+ is a home for who you are: your voice, your stories, your way of seeing the world. Share it with the people you choose, today and for the generations after you.

No ads. No algorithm. No persona without consent.
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Maria Okafor

Grandmother of four · Lisbon

Retired nurse. Talks too much about the sea. Keeping my stories here for Ada, Tomi, Leo and whoever comes next.

  • 214 stories
  • 38 voice notes
  • 12 people
Maria added a voice note
The summer I left Lagos · Family
Ada, Tomi and 4 others

Social media made you a profile.

humankind+ keeps your presence.

People

Every life is worth hearing in its own voice.

humankind+ is for the living first. Here is who it is built for.

Illustrative people. The first real ones join with early access.

How it works

Tell it. Share it. Be there.

  1. 1

    Tell it your way

    Record a voice note, write a story, answer a gentle prompt, add a photo. A few minutes at a time, at your own pace.

  2. 2

    Choose your circles

    Family, friends, students, the world. Circles, not followers. Every story is private until you decide who it is for.

  3. 3

    Be there when you’re not

    The people you choose can ask, listen and explore, in your words, wherever they are. Every answer shows where it came from.

What makes it you

Your profile, but alive.

Not a timeline of posts. The things that make people say: that’s so you.

  • Your voice, your manner

    How you laugh, pause, tease. The cadence your family would know anywhere.

  • Stories & memory

    The moments that shaped you, told the way you tell them.

  • Values & worldview

    What you believe, with all its nuance and contradiction.

  • Relationships, not an audience

    You speak differently to your daughter than to a colleague. Relationship lenses keep that difference, so each person meets the you they know.

Trust

The social network that isn’t selling you.

  • No ads, no algorithmic feed. Nothing is designed to keep anyone scrolling.
  • Private by default. Every story starts visible to no one but you.
  • Consent first. Only you, or a guardian you name, can build your persona.
  • Truth over fluency. Every answer is marked: recorded, reconstructed or a guess. “I don’t know” beats a smooth fiction.
What does Grandma think about leaving Lagos?

“I never really left. I took the sea with me in my voice.” She talks about it often, and fondly, in her recordings from this year. She may also feel some regret about it.

Recorded · voice note, 2019 Reconstructed · 14 sources Speculative · no direct source

Questions

Good questions, honest answers.

What is Humankind?

A human continuity platform where people build a digital persona — their voice, values, stories and character — and share it with the people who matter, today and for generations to come. It is not a chatbot, a resurrection engine or a deepfake tool.

Is it only for after someone has died?

No. Humankind is for living people who want to share who they are. A mentor shares their thinking with students, a parent stays present across distance. The same archive also lets that presence endure.

What does Humankind preserve?

Voice and manner, stories and memory, values and worldview, and relational warmth: the qualities that make a person recognizable and present to the people who know them.

Can someone build a persona of me without my consent?

No. A persona is only ever built by the person themselves, or by a guardian they designated. Consent comes before growth.

How do I know what is real?

Every answer is labelled: recorded truth from your own material, high-confidence reconstruction from strong evidence, or speculation with no direct source. Nothing is passed off as something you said.

Who is Humankind for?

Anyone who believes who they are matters: people sharing their voice and character, mentors and creators, families staying connected, and anyone who wants the diversity of human experience to endure.

Save your place.

Who you are deserves to be shared, and to endure. Be the first to know when humankind+ opens.